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Feedback with a Mote!?

Professor Sharon Lauricella from Ontario Tech University presented at Open Ed 2021 a session entitled ” Mote for Personalized Voice Notes: Connection, Feedback, and Accessibility via Edtech.” Mote is an educational technology tool. Lauricella is a professor in communication and digital media studies. I didn’t know what Mote was! It is a tool that allows […]
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A Peer-Reviewed Question Bank Created by Two Institutions

The Open Ed 2021 session entitled “Collaborative Test Bank Development: Multi-Institutional & Pandemic Style” had several speakers. , an Assistant Professor of Management Practice at Virginia Tech, worked with a team of undergraduate assistants. Candice Vander Weerdt is an Assistant College Lecturer at the College of Business at Cleveland State University. Mandi Goodsett is the […]
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Open Education Austria

“Synergies between Open Education and Open Science: OER Development, Projects and Trends in Austria” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 presentation by Martin Ebner, Claudia Hackl, and Sandra Schon. They described the 8 ambitions of the European Union and their open science initiative. Schon spoke about embedding open science skills early on and […]
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An Open Course on H5P

Samantha Ahern recorded a 20-minute session for the Open Ed 2021 conference. As an Open practitioner, Ahern participated in the Mozilla Open Leaders program and became a mentor for OE4BW. Ahem has experimented with H5P and “produced some guidance.” Sushumna Rao is the founder of h5pcatalogue.in and an ed-tech trainer. Rao developed and implemented an […]
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The Electric Book

Tonight’s Open Ed 2021 session was the recording for “Open is Insufficient: How Innovative Re-Use of Content Can Extend Institutional Reach.” Kenneth Feldt is the managing partner at the Electric Book Company. This is the second or maybe third presentation with Feldt I watch. Feldt focused on the value of reusability for content providers and […]
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OER Wealth!

What a great title for an Open Ed 2021 session: “Textbook Poor But OER Rich!” Ron Stafford and Mark Knockemus from Northeastern Technical College recorded together this ten-minute session. Stafford is the Library Director and Knockemus is an instructor for English and religion. Knockemus spoke about using handouts to supplement an expensive textbook and realizing […]
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The OER Buffet

“A Plate for Every Student: A Buffet Style Approach to Course Development Using OER” is the title of the Open Ed 2021 session I watched tonight. The presenter was Jennifer Schneider, an Assistant Professor at Community College of Philadelphia. The goals stated by Schneider were to identify OER collections for use in course design, assess […]
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Open Education at Camosun College

Happy birthday, Amada! You turned seven! Today I also had the opportunity to speak to a group from Ireland as part of an Open Cafe! Tonight’s session from Open Ed 2021 was entitled “Building Capacity for Open Education at a Canadian Community College” and presented by Emily Schudel, an Instructional Designer at Camosun College. The […]
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VALUE Rubrics

Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Engaging With the VALUE Rubrics: An OER Tool for Assessment of Student Learning.” This topic was particularly timely since today we talked about rubrics during our RIOS Learning Community! Jessica Chittum and Britt Spears from the Association of American Colleges and Universities presented this session. The VALUE […]
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Textual Analysis of Open Book by Pre-service Teachers

“A Textual Analysis of a Student-Created Open Licensing Book” was the title of a ten-minute Open Ed 2021 session by Pengtong Qu, Chaoran Wang, and Meina Zhu. I had watched another presentation by Qu and Wang about pre-service teachers yesterday and was curious about this session. Wang is at Colby College; Qu is at Indiana […]
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